taken 10 years ago, near to Reading, Great Britain

Hosier Street, Reading

Leading alongside the market from St Mary's Butts. The pub on the right is part of a well-known chain and occupies an old-looking building which isn't listed. The orange building is a bar and beyond is the concrete of the Broad Street Mall's car park.

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"The Maiwand Lion in the Forbury Gardens celebrates the valiant last stand of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at the Battle of Maiwand in Afghanistan in 1880. A massive 31 feet long it took two years to design and complete. Lord Wantage unveiled it in December 1886. According to an urban legend current in Reading the sculptor of the lion got the stance of the legs wrong and a real lion would fall over. Realising his mistake after he creating it he committed suicide. Recent investigation by staff at Reading Museum and H. Godwin Arnold and Sidney M. Gold reveals that Simondsí work on lion anatomy was in fact correct, being based on careful observation of real lions, not to mention the fact he actually had another forty-three years to live."